[ont.events] UW CS Colloq., Dr. Bruha on "One System of Structure Learning Implemented in PROLOG"

mwang@watmath.UUCP (mwang) (05/27/85)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM

                    - Thursday, June 6, 1985.

Dr.  I.  Bruha of Acadia University will speak on ``One
System of Structure Learning Implemented in PROLOG.''

TIME:                3:30 PM

ROOM:              MC 6091A  (Please Note)

ABSTRACT

The  author will firstly discuss the main approaches to
representation  of  patterns  and  different  types  of
learning   systems:  feature,  syntax,  structural  and
rule-based  approaches.   Three  concrete  examples  of
structure  learning systems (Winston, Shapiro, Bratko),
all being implemented in PROLOG, will be explained.

Afterwards, the author's system of a knowledge acquisi-
tion  for  an  expert  system will be presented.  There
exist  many  approaches  to  knowledge acquisition; one
possibility is to utilize PROLOG and its deduction pro-
perty  for  the structure learning.  PROLOG can be used
both  for acquisition of production rules from examples
and for testing.

Expert  systems  usually  involve fuzzy information but
the  language PROLOG does not process numbers in a good
manner.    Therefore  the  author  has  implemented  an
extended version PROLOG, called PROLOGTRAN.  The learn-
ing  system,  implemented  in this language, can easily
process both structural and numerical information.

mwang@watmath.UUCP (mwang) (05/28/85)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM

                    - Wednesay, June 5, 1985.

Dr.  I.  Bruha of Acadia University will speak on ``One
System of Structure Learning Implemented in PROLOG.''

TIME:                3:30 PM

ROOM:              MC 5158  (Please Note)

ABSTRACT

The  author will firstly discuss the main approaches to
representation  of  patterns  and  different  types  of
learning   systems:  feature,  syntax,  structural  and
rule-based  approaches.   Three  concrete  examples  of
structure  learning systems (Winston, Shapiro, Bratko),
all being implemented in PROLOG, will be explained.

Afterwards, the author's system of a knowledge acquisi-
tion  for  an  expert  system will be presented.  There
exist  many  approaches  to  knowledge acquisition; one
possibility is to utilize PROLOG and its deduction pro-
perty  for  the structure learning.  PROLOG can be used
both  for acquisition of production rules from examples
and for testing.

Expert  systems  usually  involve fuzzy information but
the  language PROLOG does not process numbers in a good
manner.    Therefore  the  author  has  implemented  an
extended version PROLOG, called PROLOGTRAN.  The learn-
ing  system,  implemented  in this language, can easily
process both structural and numerical information.
  
Coffee and refreshments will be served at 3 PM.